Ghost Stories
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Phantom on the Piccadilly Line
See it, say it, haunted
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
